Comments by "Grandmaĺovesmebest" (@sunshineandwarmth) on "Explained with Dom"
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@Johny40Se7en
It's a case of blaming the victims. ALL the homeless are portrayed as addicts, mentally ill, or ppl who made poor life choices (like majoring in philosophy or music or literature).
When programs are shown about homelessness, the person being interviewed is ALWAYS someone who says he ŵas a drunk in his youth or dropped out of school or got into trouble w the law and he is usually a person of a minority race, not someone white, crippled by a drunk driver, who had poor medical treatment, who lost his job while waiting for disability to kick in, wh never did bc he couldn't get to the lawyers office bc he had no transport, etc etc etc. Then there are all the children who simply got born to ppl who could no longer provide for them.
If you read the research, the homeless are simply a subset of the general population. If 10% of the population are addicts, 10% of the homeless are as well, and so on in equal proportions. There is no overwhelming majority of any type of ppl who would account for homelessness.
Most of the ppl on the streets are there bc their jobs left the country, companies downsized, natural disasters, illness, disability, becoming elderly w no place to go, rents going sky high and salaries not increasing, victimization of scams, frauds, robberies, etc are main reasons why ppl end up homeless.
America has little to no safety nets, despite all the propaganda, this is not the world of milk and honey.
Like the video showed, ppl are simply left to struggle alone wo accommodation. There are social services but the systems are so corrupt as to be useless.
I've been a volunteer at missions all around the country for many years. So, yes, I do know the truth and I do know the stories.
Expect the situation to get much worse as low income housing, senior housing, and disability shelters are nearly nonexistent any more, and whatever is available has waiting lists years long, and vacancies are being earmarked for the new migrants pouring over the border.
We don't have, in the US, just the problem of ppl having no homes, we have the problem of ppl having no physical protection while being homeless in one of the most violent countries in the world.
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